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Hardcover In the Wake of Cook: Exploration, Science and Empire, 1780-1801 Book

ISBN: 1138485586

ISBN13: 9781138485587

In the Wake of Cook: Exploration, Science and Empire, 1780-1801

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Originally published in 1985. After the epoch-making voyages of exploration of Captain Cook, a series of further exploratory missions was financed by the British government to add to the knowledge of the lands of the southern hemisphere: 'a more minute examination of the coast' was, for example, the brief of the voyage of the Investigator. Specimens of plants and fauna were to be collected, and useful products noted. The combination of the commercial...

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